Windows Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Windows Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 152 167
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 15 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 6
10th Percentile £156 £244 £259
25th Percentile £481 £258 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £270 £388
Median % change year-on-year +112.96% -30.32% +103.95%
75th Percentile £656 £283 £466
90th Percentile £788 £294 £500
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £275
% change year-on-year +6.25% +45.45% -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +38.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,071 2,688 3,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.32% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,924 2,411
10th Percentile £201 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £586 £555 £550
90th Percentile £659 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 44 52
10th Percentile £12.33 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 11 £575 - 1
Edinburgh +25 2 £450 +66.67%
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (60.00%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Unix
4 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Disk Encryption
5 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Refactoring
5 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (40.00%) Splunk
5 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (40.00%) SCCM
6 5 (33.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (33.33%) Finance
6 5 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (26.67%) AWS
8 3 (20.00%) Azure
8 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (20.00%) Mac OS X
8 3 (20.00%) Apple
9 2 (13.33%) Perl
9 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (13.33%) Linux
9 2 (13.33%) SLA

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Unix
3 5 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (20.00%) Mac OS X
5 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (40.00%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (40.00%) Refactoring
4 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 1 (6.67%) Change Control
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.67%) Fintech
6 1 (6.67%) Observability
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Server Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) HP